THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hysteria and Growing Conservatism The advances of communism around the world convinced many U.S. citizens that there was a real danger of “Reds” taking over their own country. Figures such as McCarthy and Hoover fanned the flames of fear by wildly exaggerating that possibility.
Detailed explanation-2: -Years ahead of what Americans thought possible, the Soviets had exploded a nuclear device. Truman reacted by requesting an intensive re-evaluation of America’s Cold War policies by the National Security Council.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet Union explodes a nuclear weapon code-named “First Lightning” in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, becoming the second country to develop and successfully test a nuclear device.
Detailed explanation-4: -The detonation of the first atomic bomb in July 1945 started the Atomic Age, an era in which the fear of nuclear attack and the promise of nuclear power pervaded American culture.